The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-05

within railroad limits; 10 enable
notionaI banking associations to in
nroasa their capital stock and change
tboir name and location; for the con-
struc.ion of a congressional nDrary
building; to grant Incense 10 towing
yeeasIs TO carry a limited NUMBER OF
nersons in addition to their crews; TO
Forfeit the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Vicksburg Railway (backbone)
land grant; to reduce tees On domestic
| nooney orders for sums less than So;
to make allowance Tor clerk hire to
roetmasters of the first and second
Classes. to cover the cost of clerical
Labor in the money order business; to
extend the immediate delivery systems,
TO prohibit tie passage of local or
lspecial laws in the Territories; to create
| the judicial district of Southern Cali
| fornia; making appropriation for addi-
tional barracks at southern, northwest
ern and the western branch of the
National Soldiers Home; to provide
for the closing up of the business of the
court of Alabama claims; to establish
additional life saying stations; for the
construction of an additional light
house; extending the free delivery sys-
tenn to towns of 10000 inhabitants; for
the sale OF the Cherokee Reservation IN
Arkansas; to amend the Statutes so as
to require brewers to give bonds for
three times their. estimated monthly
| tax; for the allowance OF the 4th of July
claims reported by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department
| Zone bill for each of the two sessions);
to amend all act for the muster and
pay of certain officers, so that any per-
son duly commits stoned, whether the
commission was received or not, shall
be considered to have been commits
stoned from the date named i'll the COM
mission; referring to the court OF
claims the claims growing out OF
GENERAL JoHNsoN's UTAH EXPEDITION;
to authorize the delivery to their own
ers of valuable boxes deposited in the
Treasury by the Secretary of War; for
the issue of postal notes in sums less
than IS; to validate the general laws of
I Dakota regarding the Incorporation of
insurance companies; authorizing the
Secretary of the Interior to extend the
time for the payment of purchase
money on the Octoe and Missouri
Indian laws; to provide q school of in
struction for cavalry and light artillery /;
to provide for the inspection Of tobacco,
cigars and snuff, anu to repeal section
3,151, Revised Statutes; to prevent the
free entry of goods for the expedition Of
The United States Bottlers' Protective
Association; to eff, ct thesarrangement
of the grades OF Office in the Adjutant-
Generals department; to provide for
the filling of the Office of United States
Treasurer in the absence of the Treas
urer and Acknowledgement; to al
low merchandise liable to specific rates
of duty to be transported in bond, al
though the merchandise may not ap-
pear by invoice to be consigned to the
port desired to allow the underwriters
10 be recognized as consignees
on abandoned vessels; to restrict the
ownership of lands in the Territories
to American citizens; to amend the act
dividing Missouri into two judicial dis
tricts, and to divide it into eastern and
western divisions, and to establish
d terms OF court, therein; to prohibit
government employees from hiring, or
States prisoners; to amend the dutia BILE
goods act, so as to allow merchandise to
be transported in bond on passenger
trains in safes, pouches and trunks and
in parcels; to provide for the holding of
terms OF court in Texas and Arkansas;
to amend the act prohibiting the i'm
portation and immigration of foreigners
under labor contracts; for an additional
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Wyoming; providing for the
location OF a branch soldiers home
west OF the Rocky Mountains; for the
relief of the Jeannette'S sufferers; rela-
tive to contested elections; for the en-
ployment of male messengers of the
postal service; to regulate the jurisdic-
ton OF United States circuit courts for
the adjustment OF land grants and the
forfeiture OF unearned lands; to add
numoer of cities TO the list of
national bank reserve cities and
to allow part of the reserve to be kept
IN cities other than New York; for the
relief OF settlers on public lands in Kan
sas and Nebraska; to provide for the
bringing of suits against the govern
ment; for the erection of public build
ings at Los Angeles, CAL, Springfield,
Mo-, 81 Paso, Tex, Santa Fe, n. NJ,
and jefferson, Tex; for the purchase
OF site for Federal bu ldings San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Forty House Joint resolutions became
laws, the principal ones being ass fol-
lows; Directing the commissioner of
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convict labor; authorizing the Secretary
OF the Interior to use certain unex-
pended balances for the relief of the
Northern Cheyennes of Wyoming; to
authorize the President to protect
American fishing and trading vessels,
and American fishermen in Canadian
waters; the Senate retaliation bill;
authorizing an investigation of the
books, methods and accounts of the
Pacific Railroads. OF the total number
OF bills which passed the Senate, go be-
came laws, including 1I5 of public and
2O5 OF strictly private nature. Follow
ing is the list Of r4 ~1 -
THE MOST IMPORTANT SENATE BILLS
placed on the statute books by the pres
ent Congress. The President succession
bill, devolving the heirship TO the Pres
ldency upon members of the cabinet in
the event OF vacancy in the Office OF
President and vice President; the Gull
Iom- Reagan bill 10 regulate interstate
commerce; for the. retirement and re-
coinage Of The trade dollar 1.-THE redemp.
ton not to come out of the monthly
builion purchase); tie electoral count
Dill: Tor the allotment OF lands in
seYeralty to the Indians and ex-